WATERFORD BOWL OF RARE BEAUTY.
7½ in. high, 12 in. diam. Engraved with escutcheon of the WINDE family (Chamberlain to H.R.H. Princess Sophia, sister to George III.). Probably a Christening Bowl.
Walter Harding collection.
A REMARKABLE CONE-SHAPED BOWL IN TWO PARTS.
12 in. high, base 8 in.; circa 1770. No duplicate.
Originally in the Author's and now in the Walter Harding collection.
At the present moment some very clever reproductions from Bohemia are arriving in England, but they are very light and have a peculiar pink tinge, which is more specially noticeable in the larger pieces.
As has already been pointed out, nearly all Irish glass is heavy, and a very large proportion of the modern fakes fail to attain the required weight. A marked exception to the general rule of weight is to be found in Irish blown specimens, produced from about 1735 to 1750, which were very light, and only engraved or quite plain, never cut. The faker frequently forgets the latter point. When, however, he remembers it, and produces plain or engraved pieces similar to the Irish, there is yet another point of distinction. The Irish pieces often show air-bubbles, but never the little specks of sand which, as I have already said, almost invariably appear in the metal peculiar to foreign glass.